Jones Day represented Aurecon Singapore (Pte) Ltd in conjunction with SMRT and the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise as lead transaction advisor to Metro Express Limited, the procurer of a US$570 million light rail construction project in Mauritius.
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Jones Day client Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation successfully obtained affirmation of a jury verdict finding that a contractor had violated the California False Claim Act ("FCA") in connection with a change order on a subway construction project.
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Jones Day succeeded in obtaining a dismissal with prejudice of a federal civil rights action filed by Tutor-Saliba-Perini, J.V., and others against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) asserting among other things that MTA had improperly denied certain entities prequalification, had been engaged in baseless litigation against Tutor entities for twenty years, and had effectuated an improper de facto debarment.
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Jones Day advised Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), as concession awarder, in connection with the €2.9 billion (US$4.2 billion) project financing for the financing, design, construction, and maintenance of a new high-speed railway between Paris and Rennes, France.
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Jones Day assisted Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority in the drafting of the construction documents for bridges and street overpasses for design-bid-build portions of the $2.4 billion Alameda Corridor, which is a consolidated freight rail line from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the downtown rail yards.
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Jones Day represented Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) in contractual disputes with two railroads concerning certain fees to be paid to repay the bonds issued for construction of the $2.4 billion Alameda Corridor linking the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental rail network.
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On behalf of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Jones Day secured the recovery of $2.54 million from Allianz Insurance after a successful arbitration ruling in a builder's risk insurance claim.
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MetroLink Light Rail

United States

Trials/Litigation

Rail & Transit Systems

Represented member of joint venture hired to design and manage construction of an extension to the MetroLink light rail system in disputes arising from termination. Contact:Stephen V. O'Neal/Kent W. Lindsay

Jones Day represented the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in a writ of mandate proceeding in which an unsuccessful bidder on a contract challenged the award of the contract.
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Advised a consortium of Spanish and German companies, mainly engineering and construction companies, against ETMVA, a municipal public entity in Colombia, regarding the construction of the Medellin Metro in Colombia.
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Jones Day represented Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in litigation involving competing claims by a tunneling contractor and MTA's cross-claims totaling in excess of $100 million in damages.
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Jones Day prevailed at trial establishing the right of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to remove for cause its appointee to a three-person disputes review board (DRB) for a $162 million subway project, and prevailed in the ensuing appeal resulting in the first published opinion in the United States concerning DRBs.
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Jones Day defended Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) against a series of lawsuits filed by Shea-Kiewit-Kenny (SKK) and its subcontractors arising out of the construction of the subway beneath Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue and the owner's termination of the general contractor.
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